# Quarter of Republicans believe Obama may be anti-Christ according to recent poll.

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**Created:** [March 25, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarter-of-republicans-believe-obama-may-be-anti-christ-according-to-recent-poll/533743 "2010-03-25T15:15:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarter-of-republicans-believe-obama-may-be-anti-christ-according-to-recent-poll/533743/81 "2010-03-26T22:36:37Z")

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> [@spoke-](#):
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> That’s exactly so. None of the Republicans I know admit to being Republicans. (And that’s in _Georgia_!) These days, they all say “I’m not a Republican. I’m a _conservative_!”

Ask them why, and share the info with us. I would be interested in their reasons.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarter-of-republicans-believe-obama-may-be-anti-christ-according-to-recent-poll/533743/82 "2010-03-27T00:08:21Z")

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> [@spoke-](#):
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> That’s exactly so. None of the Republicans I know admit to being Republicans. (And that’s in _Georgia_!) These days, they all say “I’m not a Republican. I’m a _conservative_!”

That’s a very bad thing for the future of the party. They are conceding their party to the extremists. I had a kind of opposite reaction atfer the 2004 elections. I called myself a liberal instead of a Democrat even though I woted for Dems 98% of the time. After Bush II was re-elected, I decided that the splintering among liberals cost another 4 years of Bush, and I started calling myself a Democrat. I also started volunteering for the party for mundane stuff like stuffing envelops. I wonde how many others went through a similar process.

–Boyo Jim, liberal Democrat

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarter-of-republicans-believe-obama-may-be-anti-christ-according-to-recent-poll/533743/83 "2010-03-27T02:46:42Z")

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I hear you. I’m on the conservative wing of the extreme left, a radical, in the formal poli sci sense of the word. I’ve never not voted, never once, and 100% Dem is probably a pretty good bet, I’m gonna pretend I can’t remember.

But a Democrat? Registered? A liberal? One of those namby-pampby centrists who think they tinker and fuss with the Death Machine long enough, they can re-build it as a solar powered rainbow extruder? Would the spirit of Thomas Paine ever forgive me?

Maybe when I’m old. Twenty, thirty more years, tops. OK, forty.

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